pickSo good! Cordingly relies heavily on primary sources to give the reader a genuine look into the lives of women connected to the sea, primarily throughout Europe and North America. I loved the whole book and I‘m buying at least 2 copies for friends.
This is the beautiful Sailors Reading Room, looking out to sea in Southwold. Built in 1864 to provide a quiet place for sailors and fisherman to meet, read and chat rather than spend their time and money in the pub. Today you can still walk in from the beach, shut out the hubbub of life and cosy up in an armchair and read - and you don‘t even have to be a sailor
so-soSorry @kaysworld1 - I really wanted to like this book for #newyearwhodis but it didn't quite live up to my expectations. I'm going to try to read more but I need to focus on #lmpbc and #whodunituk for a while. @monalyisha
Currently reading Heroines and harlots by David cordingly
Woman at sea in the great age of sail.
#reading ##piratelife #harlots #read #books #bookwormsunite
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I am sad for Mary Read that Anne Bonny gets all the cool stuff (though she has a tea on Adagio and is in Assassin's Creed). Mary had the more interesting life of these two #femalepirates who sailed together but we know she died in jail giving birth. Nobody knows what happened to Anne. #PiratesLife #WhatAWayToLive
pickA good, solid history of women involved in every way of sailing in the 17th, 18th, & 19th Centuries. Cordingly looks at women who masqueraded as sailors, women involved with sailors, and women who saved sailors.
Today's reading (and beer). The Oceanography Merit Badge book is so I can help my son, plus these always serve as nice primers on a subject. The beer is Urban South Charming Wit. New brewery here in New Orleans.
William Brown: this is one of those stories that could make a great film - a black woman masquerading as a man on sailing ships in the 1800's. And even when unmasked, she continued to do the work.
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